Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John S. Parker, Jr., Charles River--St. Mark's School...
...experience that is not just the start of another school year, but rather the commencement of a new phase of their lives. The new surroundings and environment, the new people with whom they will have to deal, and the altogether new responsibility for the ordering of their own affairs mark the end of school days and the beginning of the journey of adult life. And for all but a few the four years spent in Harvard will be an experience rich in itself, and also will lay the foundations for a more abundant life when the college years are ended...
Such last week was the scene of the convivial dinner tendered to Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky, boosted last month into the Senate Leadership at an hour when his Democratic colleagues were divided with the greatest bitterness over the Supreme Court issue. Moreover, the celebration was timed to mark the burial of that very bitterness, the hoped-for hour when with his original handicap removed he could lead a reunited majority through a triumphal finale in a closing Congress...
...taught her to solve algebraic equations at the age of 5 by telling her that the equal sign was like a seesaw and the numbers on both sides were like children. Father Scott coached Winkie for the geometry in her College Entrance Examinations for Bryn Mawr, in which her mark was 99. Net gave no trouble until, out of Bryn Mawr and married to a wholesale druggist, she tried to do her husband's double entry bookkeeping. Father Scott straightened that out on a two-hour walk along the Wissahickon...
...next two miles, finally waded ashore between Dover and Folkestone after 13 hr. 29 min. Twenty-third to complete the channel swim, Blower was 2 hr. 45 min. slower than the Bohemian mechanic, Venceslas Spacek, who set the record in 1927, 1 hr. 2 min. faster than the 1926 mark of Manhattan's Gertrude Ederle who was the first woman to swim the Channel...